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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
2
Entry appears as second class matter at Mount Airy post office under the act of Congress of March 1972. Text fragment notes a designation or filing date with limited readable context.
A collage of quotes on gentility contrasts wealth and virtue. It includes lines from La Rochefoucauld and Newman about love, lordship, theft, and the fine line between gentlemanly conduct and social stature.
Editorial argues that fireproof hostels offer little safety as heat, smoke, and flames engulf interiors. It cites crowded guest deaths, danger of interior stairs acting as chimneys, and fuel from carpets and furnishings. Calls for stricter building regulations and condemnation of lax provisions to prevent similar disasters nationwide.
The article notes the danger of hunters firing at autoists on public highways. It recalls a past incident where a holiday traveler was killed by a hunter from nearby woods and argues such violence disrupts standard driving safety expectations.
Small publishers worry as mills are bought by large houses limiting newsprint access. Senator William Langer plans a congressional inquiry into possible collusion between mills and big publishers. If independent papers cannot obtain newsprint their viability and local news coverage could suffer nationwide.
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson warns about twenty million bushels of potatoes likely to waste as freezing weather nears. The Department bought the 1946 surplus under price support, storing stock mainly in the Northwest. Despite efforts to use potatoes for alcohol, animal feed, and school lunches, no viable disposition solution has emerged.
Tennessee Governor James M. McCord calls the Southern states to implement vocational training to aid farm laborers facing displacement from mechanized cotton picking and sugar cane harvesting, warning of an economic crisis if mass unemployment results.
London menus offered whale-burger steaks from a ten ton Antarctic consignment. Reported tasters said the meat tasted like chopped steak with no fish flavor, served as chopped steak with sauce. The piece notes meat eaters may welcome whale burgers as a hearty treat with as much ham as a hamburger.
A collection of statements from Bernard Baruch G Ashton Oldham P W BaaZe Leonard E Maynard Tom Connally Alben Barkley and William Green on America war prevention punishment laws and labor in an international and domestic context. The remarks reflect concerns about life styles war paths economic feeding practices governance and strikes.
Jan Christian Smuts urges peaceful coexistence of social systems. Phillip Murray warns of a massive effort to cripple labor. Tully Knoles cites nationalism as a root of war. Arthus Coons endorses the United Nations as a rational path.
The list presents distinct items: 1 15 000 000 2 Town 3 In 1800 4 Not counting the peace conference five 5 The Office of Rents and Priorities 6 A house to be instructed upon any site from materials ready made for the job 7 Probably from the Dutch 10 Yes in 1926
A public auction will be held January 4 1947 at Pilot Mountain Surry County North Carolina for three parcels known as Colored Hill formerly the Susan Ferrin property. The sale by order of clerk J H Blalock attorney requires cash to highest bidder and court confirmation. Parcels include tracts described by Rufus Stones and S C Carsons lines with measurements of about one third acre and a three cornered piece.
Ralph W. Lockman states that moral rightness rests on God’s law, not popular opinion, in a sermon. Lucius D. Clay adds that democracy in Germany hinges on ensuring food supply to sustain the population and labor capacity.
Robert R. Wason, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, faults the communist system for the ongoing low standard of living in Russia and attributes it to inadequate results of communism.
The page presents ten questions covering U S labor organization John L Lewis birthplace the first Hague Conference the number of disarmament conferences between the wars which office will replace the OPA what a prefab is the origin of the name Santa Claus the area of Antarctica whether Russia is in the International Court of Justice and whether Britain has had a general strike. The reader is directed to see the answers elsewhere on the page.
The notice details a land parcel description on the colored section side of a branch in Pilot Mountain North Carolina. It lists boundary lines by neighbors Wi Venable J Perris Sam Hill and Rufus Stone and notes the property has three prime building sites. Sale hinges on 1947 taxes and court confirmation.
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